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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 

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THE MONUMENT TO 
WILLIAM PEPPER, M. D., LL. D. 

1894 — 1899 

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE 



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CONTENTS 

PAGE 

REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE DR. WILLIAM 
PEPPER TESTIMONIAL COMMITTEE, Sara Yorke 

Stevenson, Sc. D 7 

inscriptions upon the pepper monument l6 

subscribers to the monument i9 

REPORT OF THE TREASURER of the Committee, 

Daniel Baugh, Esq 25 

CEREMONIES AT THE FREE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE 
AND ART 27 

ORDER OF EXERCISES 27 

LIST OF GUESTS INVITED TO SIT UPON THE PLATFORM, 29 
ADDRESS BY DANIEL BAUGH, ESQ., AND REPORT BY 

CLARENCE H. CLARK, ESQ 35i 45 

ADDRESS BY THE HONORABLE GEORGE F. EDMUNDS . . 5 1 

ADDRESS BY PROVOST CHARLES CUSTIS HARRISON, LL.D., 57 
ADDRESS BY HORACE HOWARD FURNESS, PH. D., LL. D., 

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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY 



OF THE 



Dr. WILLIAM PEPPER TESTIMONIAL 
COMMITTEE 

SARA YORKE STEVENSON, Sc. D. 



THE MONUMENT TO 
WILLIAM PEPPER, M. D., LL. D. 

REPORT BY THE SECRETARY OF THE COMMITTEE 




'N the Winter of 1894 plans were made by Dr. Pep- 
per, then Provost of the University of Pennsyl- 
vania, to close the scholastic year by exercises of 
more than usual solemnity. He regarded the 
formative period of the Institution as ended. It seemed 
to him that the University idea which Benjamin Franklin 
had outlined and to the practical application of which he 
himself had devoted his life, had been firmly planted. 
Moreover, the close relation with the community which 
he had so carefully fostered had been established. 

In the thirteen years of his administration, thirteen 
new departments had been founded. Most of them, when 
necessary, had been properly housed and equipped. He 
regarded the coming year as the opening of a new chapter 
in the history of the University. To the creative period 
was to succeed an era ©f development. The thought of 
worthily marking this distinction between the two eras in 
the existence of the great institution of learning had been 
in his mind for some time past. Already during the sum- 
mer of 1893, when on a brief visit to the Chicago Colum- 
bian Exhibition, he had expressed a desire to possess 
the statue of Dr. Franklin which stood at the entrance 
of the Electricity Building, with a view to using it at the 

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REPORT commencement exercises in order to emphasize the frui- 

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tion of the seed planted by Philadelphia's greatest citizen. 
He hoped eventually to have the statue cast in bronze. 
So earnest had he been about the matter that the writer, 
then in Chicago, was requested to officially apply for and 
succeeded in obtaining the statue as a gift from the man- 
agement to the University of Pennsylvania. 

These unusual preparations on the part of the Provost 
suggested to some of his friends and co-workers the 
thought of a personal testimonial to the man to whose 
creative genius the University, and indeed the whole com- 
munity, owed so much. 

The only difficulty in the way seemed to be in the 
selection of a suitable form of testimonial. The Provost's 
numerous foundations and extensive benefactions made it 
impossible to consider such a tribute, and anything else 
seemed trivial. The problem, however, soon was solved 
through an accident. 

It happened that on one of his professional journeys 
to New York a friend invited Dr. Pepper to visit the 
studio of Mr, Karl Bitter. He was strongly impressed 
with the personality of the artist. On his return he spoke 
freely of his admiration for his work, and declared hig 
intention some time to sit to him for a bust to be be- 
queathed by him to his sons. This remark, made perhaps 
at random, to an intimate friend, gave a definite shape to 
the whole project, and it was decided to ask Dr. Pepper 
to sit to Mr. Bitter for a bust to be presented to the 
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania at the follow- 
ing June Commencement. In the meantime, the Provost 
determined that the time had come when he could worth- 
ily retire from the administration of the University of 
Pennsylvania. In view of this decision the movement 
in its limited scope seemed inappropriate and the bust 
insufficient ; and a more formal tribute was planned. 

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The project had orig-inated in the Department of report 
Archaeology. The Dean of the College and some of the secretary 
Trustees were now approached upon the subject and, 
with fullest approval, entered into the plan. 

A preliminary meeting was held on April 23d, 1894, 3-t 
237 South Twenty-first Street, at 9 o'clock A. M. There 
were present Mr. Charlemagne Tower, Jr., Trustee of the 
University of Pennsylvania, and then President of the 
Department of Archaeology ; Dr. Harrison Allen, of the 
Wistar Institute ; Dr. Horace Jayne, Dean of the College ; 
Dr. Morris Jastrow, Professor of Semitic Languages ; Dr. 
Judson Daland; Mr. Gregory B. Keen, Librarian; Dr. John 
Marshall, Dean of the Medical Faculty; Dr. W. P. Wilson, 
of the Department of Biology; Miss Frances E. Bennett 
and Mrs. J. Dundas Lippincott, of the Women Graduates ; 
Mrs, Cornelius Stevenson, Secretary of the Department 
of Archaeology ; and Rev. Jesse Y. Burk, Secretary of the 
Board of Trustees. 

Notes were read from Dr. Horace Howard Furness, 
Mr. Samuel Dickson, Hon. John Scott, Trustees of the 
University, and from others who, whilst indorsing the 
movement, were unable to attend. 

The Committee of the Dr. Pepper Testimonial was 
organized as follows : — 

Chairman, Mr. Charlemagne Tower, Jr., Trustee of the 
University and President of the Department of Archaeology and 
Palaeontology. 

Treasurer, Rev. Jesse Y. Burk, Secretary of the University of 
Pennsylvania. 

Secretary, Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson, Secretary of the Depart- 
ment of Archaeology and Palaeontology. 

Members representing Board of Trustees : Charlemagne Tower, 
Jr., Dr. Horace Howard Furness, Rev. Jesse Y. Burk. 

Dr. Horace Jayne, Dean of the College Faculty. 

Dr. Edmund J. James, Wharton School of American History. 

Prof. John B. McMaster, Wharton School of American History. 



REPORT Dr. William P. Wilson, Biology. 



BY THE 
SECRETARY 



Dr. G. F. Barker, Physics. 

Dr. E. Smith, Chemistry. 

Dr. F. E. Schelling, English Literature. 

Prof. Warren P. Laird, Architecture. 

Prof. H. W. Spangler, Engineering, 

Prof Edgar Marburg, Engineering. 

Dr. John Marshall, Medical. 

Dr. Judson Daland, Medical. 

Dr. James Truman, Dental. 

Dr. W. Morris, Hospital. 

Mr. Gillingham, Veterinary 

Dr. J. W. Adams, Veterinary. 

Mr. C. Stuart Patterson, Law. 

Dr. Daniel G. Brinton, Archaeology and Palaeontology. 

Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson, Archaeology and Palaeontology. 

Mr. Gregory B. Keen, Library. 

Dr. Morris Jastrow, Jr., Library. 

Gen. Isaac J. Wistar, Wistar Institute. 

Dr. Harrison Allen, Wistar Institute. 

Miss Frances E. Bennett, Women Graduates. 

Mrs. J. Dundas Lippincott, Women Graduates. 

Charles H. Cramp, University Archaeological Association. 

Dr. E. J. James, University Extension. 

Dr. Edward T. Devine, University Extension. 

Mr. Charles A. Brinley, University Extension. 

It was unanimously — 

Resolved, That in view of Dr. Pepper's long and untiring ser- 
vices to the interests of the University of Pennsylvania and to the 
cause of higher education in this city, and in view of the large share 
which his personal effort has had in placing the Institution where 
it now stands before the eyes of the community, a bronze statue 
of himself by Karl Bitter be presented by us, his co-workers, to 
the University, as an inadequate expression of our appreciation, 
and that a committee of three be appointed by the Chair to call 
upon the Chairman of the Committee on Finance and Property 
to apply for a suitable site on the Campus whereupon it can be 
erected. 

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It was further— report 

BY THE 
Resolved, That the Secretary be, and is hereby, authorized to SECRETARY 
communicate at once with Mr. Bitter and to order a statue of Dr. 
WiUiam Pepper in accordance with the terms of his letter. 

In accordance with the resolution recorded above the 
Chair appointed itself, Mrs. Stevenson, and Dr. Jayne to 
call upon the Chairman of the Committee on Finance and 
Property with regard to the assignment of a space on the 
Campus for the projected statue, and the following official 
letter was written : — 

Philadelphia, April 26, 1894. 

Dear Sir: — In accordance with the enclosed resolution unan- 
imously passed at a meeting of the Dr. Pepper Testimonial Com- 
mittee the undersigned were appointed by the chairman to apply to 
you for the assignment of the site on the Campus whereon to erect 
a bronze statue of Dr. Pepper by the Sculptor, Karl Bitter. 

We feel that the splendid results of Dr. Pepper's thirteen years' 
administration are the true monument that will perpetuate his 
memory and that, in asking your committee for the centre of the 
circular plot of grass in front of the college building for the pro- 
posed statue we are only asking for the privilege of stamping his 
great work with the appreciation of his fellow workers. 

Hoping that your committee will grant our request, we remain, 

Charlemagne Tower, Jr., 
President of Department of Archcsology 
and Palcsontology, Chairman of the 
Dr. Pepper Testimonial Com.mittee. 

Horace Jayne, 
Dean of the College Faculty. 

Sara Y. Stevenson, 

Chairman of the Museum Committee, 
Secretary of the Dr. Pepper Testimo- 
nial Committee. 

A conference with the Committee on Finance and 
Property of the Board of Trustees was accordingly held 
in the Library Building of the University to discuss 

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REPORT the future location of this statue — Mr. Karl Bitter beings 

BY THE ^ 

SECRETARY Present. 

The gift of the statue having been accepted by the 
Trustees, Mr. Bitter stated that, owing to the size of the 
monument as then planned, the space between the arches 
in the centre of the reading room of the library was, in his 
opinion, the most suitable place for its erection. This site 
was, therefore, assigned to it by the Trustees and reluct- 
antly agreed to by the sub-committee. 

At a meeting held on May 9th, a committee of five, 
composed of the Chair, the Treasurer, Secretary, and two 
other members to be selected by the Chair, was appointed, 
with full power to fill any vacancy which might occur in 
its own body, to take charge of and to attend to all the 
details of the testimonial, to employ experts to pass 
upon the merits of the statue when finished, to raise 
funds and to disburse the same, to transact all business 
for the Committee, to erect the statue, and to carry the 
enterprise to its final completion. In compliance with 
the above the Chair appointed Mr. Baugh and Mr. Straw- 
bridge members of the Committee. 

The Committee in charge accordingly raised the neces- 
sary funds and contracted with Mr. Bitter for a bronze 
statue, with the understanding that it should be designed 
of a size and material suitable for placing on the grounds 
if deemed advisable. It was also stipulated that the bust 
study, already begun, should be ready for presentation 
at the "Commencement," on June loth, 1894, ^.nd Dr. 
Horace Howard Furness was invited to deliver the pres- 
entation address. The masterly oration delivered by this 
eminent scholar at the Academy of Music on that memor- 
able occasion still lingers in the minds of those who had 
the good fortune to hear him. 

As he recited in forcible words the transformation in 
the scope and character of the University under the retir- 



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ing Provost during the thirteen years of his administration, Report 

it seemed almost incredible that one man could have secretary 

accomplished so much. He took his audience back to 

1 88 1 for a "bird's-eye view" of the University at that 

time — "It need not be a very large bird," he said ; " I think 

a sparrow will do." In all, four buildings, a modest library 

of 20,000 volumes, and 44 professors and instructors, 

teaching Latin, Greek, Mathematics, French, German, 

Music, Dentistry, Medicine, and Law to 981 students. 

The contrast to present conditions was indeed great. 

The difficulty met with in obtaining sittings from Dr. 
Pepper caused serious delay in the completion of the 
statue, and it was only in 1896 that it was finally ac- 
cepted by the committee in charge, after it had been crit- 
ically, though unofficially, examined by Mr. John Lafarge, 
Professor Ware, of New York, and Mr. Clifford Grayson, 
of Philadelphia, as well as by others who, at the request ' 
of members of the Committee, were informally invited to 
examine it. The opinion of the first-named artist seemed 
of special value as being that not only of an art expert 
but of a near connection of Dr. Pepper, and one, there- 
fore, familiar with his moods and usual attitude. 

In 1896 it was sent to the Gorham Manufacturing 
Company to be cast in bronze. 

In the Winter of 1897 i^ was, at the request of the 
artist, placed on exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts, 
in this city. Here it was unfortunately set on a low 
pedestal. Having been designed to stand on a pedestal 
eight or ten feet in height, intended to be placed on the 
highest point of a series of terraces, it appeared at a 
disadvantage. 

it was some time before the artist's drawings for the 
bronze panels intended to be placed on either side of the 
granite pedestal designed by Mr, Leigh Hunt, were per- 
fectly satisfactory to himself and to those in charge. 

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REPORT Meantime, chang^es had occurred in the Committee 

SECRETARY which caused additional delays. Mr. Tower accepted a 
diplomatic post abroad, and the chairmanship of the Com- 
mittee passed into the hands of Mr. Justus C. Strawbridge ; 
and Rev. Jesse Y. Burk, the Treasurer of the Fund, having 
fallen seriously ill, Mr. Daniel Baugh was appointed to 
take his place. Under these circumstances, when the Sec- 
retary, now the only remaining original officer, found her- 
self at this time compelled to go abroad, it was deemed 
wise to await her return before making final arrange- 
ments with regard to the pedestal. 

In the Spring of 1898 the Committee requested of 
the Trustees of the University that the centre of the plot 
of ground reserved on the plans of the Free Museum of 
Science and Art, on the southwest corner of Thirty-third 
and Spruce Streets, for an open space, be substituted for 
the place formally agreed upon as a site whereon to erect 
the statue. This request was granted. 

In June, 1898, Mr. Bitter's drawings for the bronze 
side panels intended to adorn the pedestal were finally 
accepted by the Committee. 

On July 28th Dr. Pepper, whose strength had been 
visibly failing for two years past, breathed his last in Cali- 
fornia, where he had gone in quest of health and a much- 
needed rest. He was in the fifty-fifth year of his age. 

The testimonial erected by his fellow-workers in token 
of their appreciation of his fruitful activity and masterful 
leadership, now became a memorial to a devoted life un- 
grudgingly sacrificed in the cause of the public welfare. 

During the progress of the work on the pedestal the 
new building of the Free Museum of Science and Art of 
the Department of Archaeology of the University of Penn- 
sylvania, the last effort of Dr. Pepper's public life, was 
approaching completion. It seemed highly appropriate 
to link the formal presentation of the statue with the 

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official transfer to the Trustees of this imposing^ edifice, Report 

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and to make the occasion one great tribute to the late secretary 
Provost and President of the Department of Archaeology 
and Palaeontology — the man to whom the University and 
the city of Philadelphia owed so much. 

The fact that the main hall of the structure now about 
to be dedicated had been erected by him and bore his 
name, added to the appropriateness of the plan. The 
Committee's suggestion was warmly received by the Board 
of Managers of the Department of Archaeology. At a 
meeting they authorized the President to appoint a com- 
mittee to co-operate with the Testimonial Committee in 
preparing for the ceremonies of the opening of the build- 
ing and to consult with Mrs. Pepper and the executors 
under her husband's will, in order to learn their wishes 
with regard to details. Mrs. Pepper formally signified her 
intention of selecting this occasion to announce a gift of 
$50,000 to the University as an endowment in memoriam 
for the hall in the Free Museum of Science and Art 
known as " The William Pepper Hall," thus adding an- 
other lasting tribute to the memory of the late Provost, 
and most fittingly attaching it to the foundation, the fu- 
ture of which her distinguished husband — by a formal 
expression dated only a few days before his death — had 
sought to secure. 

December 20th, 1899, was the day fixed upon for the 
official transfer of the fully-equipped building and its col- 
lections, for the formal presentation of the statue to the 
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, and for the 
announcement of the endowment of " The William Pepper 
Hall" by Mrs. Pepper. 

The day was propitious, and a large company of repre- 
sentative men and women assembled in the Widener 
Lecture Hall to witness the exercises. Absent friends 
sent flowers and wreaths to be laid at the foot of Dr. 

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REPORT Pepper's statue, which could be seen from the windows 

of the crowded Lecture Hall. 

The pedestal designed by Leigh Hunt is a plain block 
of granite. On the front of the statue, which faces Thirty- 
third Street, is a bronze plaque fastened upon a stone 
shield and bearing the simple inscription : — 

WILLIAM PEPPER, M. D., LL. D., 

Provost of the University 

OF Pennsylvania, 

1 882-1 894. 

On one side is inserted a fine bronze panel, repre- 
senting a draped figure sitting with calm dignity under 
the spread-out foliage of a tree, holding in her hand 
the Torch of Knowledge. In a space left for the pur- 
pose is a quotation from Emerson's " Essay on Char- 
acter " : — 

" All things exist in the man tinged with the manners 

of his soul." 

On the second panel the tree is bearing rich fruit and 
the figure is actively caring for the coming harvest. Here 
the quotation is one from Franklin's " Poor Richard " — it 
was a favorite one with the Provost : — 

" There will be sleeping enough in the grave." 

On the back of the pedestal is an inscription giving a 
list of some of Dr. Pepper's most remarkable achieve- 
ments. The inscription runs as follows : — 

As Provost he established the following University Depart- 
ments : — 

Lhe Wharton School of Finance and Economy, 

Lhe Biological Department, 

Lhe Department of Philosophy, 

The Veterinary Department, 
Lhe Lraining School for Nurses, 

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The Department of Physical Education, REPORT 

The University Library, ^^ ^^^^ 



The Graduate Department for Women, 

The Department of Hygiene, 

The Department of Architecture, 

The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, 

The William Pepper Laboratory of Clinical Medicine, 

The Department of Archaeology and Palaeontology. 

And the following public institutions were his creations : — 

The Free Library of Philadelphia, 

The Free Museum of Science and Art, 

The Philadelphia Museums. 

Below is inscribed a sentence which Dr. Pepper con- 
stantly used as a most convincing argument in favor of 
persistent effort : — 

" You and I must pass away, but these things will last." 

Nothing could have been more impressive in their sim- 
plicity than the exercises held on that winter afternoon 
in memory of the man whose statue, erected by loving 
hands, now would stand in all ages to come near the 
scene of the hardest struggles of his early manhood, sur- 
rounded by his own achievements — on the very ground 
redeemed by him from a barren waste and turned by his 
genius into a scene of useful and ever-growing activity. 

Little was said — what need was there for words ? All 
the surroundings told of the greatness of the man, of his 
foresight and masterful grasp of affairs, of his power for 
work and of his independence of thought, in contrast with 
his gentle simplicity, fortitude, and cheerful self-sacrifice. 

The Honorable George F. Edmunds, a warm personal 
friend of the late Dr. Pepper, as well as one of his most 
esteemed co-workers, at the request of the Committee 
had consented to be its official representative. At the 
invitation of Mrs. Pepper, he had also consented to rep- 

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REPORT resent her, and after the official report of the President 

SECRETARY °^ ^^^ Department of Archaeology, which was but one 
. long tribute to the memory of his distinguished prede- 
cessor, he formally presented the statue and the endow- 
ment of the "William Pepper Hall" to the University. 
The Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Charles 
C. Harrison, in the name of the Board of Trustees, offi- 
cially accepted both the gifts, and in an able address 
declared the Free Museum of Science and Art open to 
the public. 

The three addresses are herewith given. They prac- 
tically form one whole, and properly belong to this record. 
The address delivered by Dr. Horace Howard Furness on 
the occasion of the presentation of the bust in 1894, al- 
though published at the time, forms part of the history of 
the movement, and is also reprinted and added to the 
present report. 

The Committee in charge feel that they have fully car- 
ried out the task assigned to them. 

The man whom they undertook to honor now lives 
only in his works. Future generations will, more cor- 
rectly than we can, appreciate the value of Dr. Pepper's 
efforts on behalf, not only of this community, but of this 
continent. To his fellow-townsmen is assigned the duty 
of handing down what they know of him. M. Bru- 
netiere says that "posterity knows of a man but his 
works ; only his contemporaries know the man." Surely, 
no man ever received a nobler tribute from his lifelong 
associates as well as from the most eminent among his 
contemporaries than did Dr. William Pepper on the oc- 
casion of which this report is the record. 



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LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS TO THE PEPPER 
STATUE AND PEDESTAL 



REPORT 
BY THE 
SECRETARY 



Mr. Lucien H. Alexander, 
Dr. Harrison Allen, 
Dr. Herman B. Allyn, 
Mrs. E. N. Andrews, 
Dr. John Ashhurst, Jr. 

Mr. Llewellyn Barry, 
Rev. John G. Bawn, 
Dr. Henry Beates, Jr., 
Miss Frances E. Bennett, 
Miss Eleanor Blodgett, 
Mr. Samuel T. Bodine, 
Mr. Amos P. Brown. 

Dr. Charles E. Cadwalader, 

Mr. John Cadwalader, 

Mr. Henry Chapman, Jr., 

Mr. Samuel Hudson Chapman, 

Dr. G. Maxwell Christine, 

Mr. Clarence H. Clark, 

Mr. E. W. Clark, 

Mrs. E. W. Clark, 

Mr. Richard Cleeman, 

Mrs. Travis Cochran, 

Mr. John H. Converse, 

Dr. Roland G. Curtin. 



Mr. Thomas Dolan, 

Mrs. Lucy Wharton Drexel, 

Dr. L. A. Duhring. 

Mr. Carl Edelheim, 
Mr. William L. Elkins, 
Mr. Wilson Eyre, Jr., 
Mrs. Eisner. 

Dr. R. P. Falkner, 

Mr. B. N. Farren, 

Dr. Edward R. Fell, 

Mr. Joseph C. Fraley, 

Mr. W. W. Frazier, 

Dr. W. J. Freeman, 

Prof. George S. FuUerton, 

Dr. Horace Howard Furness. 

Mr. John S. Gerhard, 
Mr. John B. Gest, 
Dr. William Goodell, 
Mr. George S. Graham, 
Mr. Frank T. Gucker, 
Mrs. Guerrero, 
Dr. John Guiteras, 
Mr. A. Haller Gross, 



Dr. Judson Daland, 

Mr. George M. Dallas, 

Dr. G. G. Davis, 

Mr. Frank Miles Day, 

Dr. John B. Deaver, 

Dr. George E. deSchweinitz, 

Dr. Edward T. Devine, 

Mr. Erskine Hazard Dickson, 

Mr. Samuel Dickson, 



Mrs. Horace Binney Hare, 

Mr. Joseph S: Harris, 

Mr. Charles Custis Harrison, 

Mrs. E. L. Harrison, 

Mr. John Harrison, 

Mrs. John Harrison, 

Dr. A. Harshburger, 

Dr. J. W. Harshburger, 

Mrs. Phebe A. Hearst, 



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REPORT 
BY THE 
SECRETARY 



Dr. B. C. Hirst, 
Mr. H. H. Houston, 
Mr. S. F. Houston, 
Dr. William Hunt. 

Dr. Edmund J. James, 
Dr. Morris Jastrow, Jr., 
Mr. H. La Barre Jayne, 
Dr. Joseph French Johnson, 
Miss Emma Jones. 

Mr. Gregory B. Keen, 
Dr. William H. Klapp. 

Prof. Warren P. Laird, 
Dr. Robert H. Lamborn, 
Dr. Francis W. Lewis, 
Mr. J. Dundas Lippincott, 
Mrs. J. Dundas Lippincott, 
Mrs. A. W. Lucas. 

Dr. James MacAlister, 
Mr. John F. Maher, 
Dr. John Marshall, 
Dr. Edward C. Martin, 
Mr. Henry C. Mercer, 
Mr. J. Hartley Merrick, 
Mr. J. Vaughan Merrick, 
Dr. Adolph Miller, 
Dr. Charles K. Mills, 
Mr. A. Sydney Millward, 
Mr. James C. Mitchell, 
Rev. J. J. Joyce Moore, 
Dr. J. H. Musser. 

Mrs. William Henry Newbold, 
Dr. William R. Newbold, 
Rev. Joseph D. Newlin, 
Dr. William F. Norris. 



Mr. Simon N. Patten, 

Mr. C. Stuart Patterson, 

Mr. Clifford Pemberton, Jr., 

Dr. Walter I. Pennock, 

Dr. Charles B. Penrose, 

Mr. George Wharton Pepper, 

Mrs. Henry Pepper, 

Dr. George A. Piersol, 

Dr. William Campbell Posey, 

Mr. Howard N. Potts, 

Hon. Henry Reed, 

Dr. Edward T. Reichert, 

Mr. Joseph G. Rosengarten. 

Mr. John Sailer, 

Mr. W. B. Saunders, 

Dr. Charles Schaeffer, 

Hon. John Scott, 

Prof. Edgar V. Seeler, 

Mr. John C. Sims, 

Mr. Edgar F. Smith, 

Mr. Horner Smith, 

Prof Maxwell Sommerville, 

Rev. James Dallas Steele, 

Dr. A. A. Stevens, 

Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson, 

Mr. John Stewardson, 

Dr. Charles M. Stickler, 

Mr. Justus C. Strawbridge, 

Dr. S. S. Stryker. 

Mr. S. F. Talen, 

Dr. Charles H. Thomas, 

Dr. William Thomson, 

Dr. Francis N. Thorpe, 

Hon. Charlemagne Tower, Jr., 

Mr. John W. Townsend, 

Rev. Henry Clay Trumbull, 

Dr. James Tyson. 



Mrs. William Weightman, 
Dr. Harry R. Wharton, 
Dr. J. William White, 
Mrs. George D. Widener, 
Mr. P. A. B. Widener, 
Dr. DeForrest Willard, 
Dr. G. G. Wise, 
Dr. Thomas Wistar, 
Dr. H. C. Wood. 



Miss Ida Wood, 
Dr. T. G. Wormley. 

Dr. James K. Young. 

The College, 
School of Architecture, 
School of Biology, 
Medical School, 
Veterinary School, 
Law School. 



REPORT 
BY THE 
SECRETARY 





REPORT OF THE TREASURER 



OF THE 



Dr. WILLIAM PEPPER TESTIMONIAL COMMITTEE. 



WILLIAM PEPPER TESTIMONIAL FUND 

REPORT OF THE TREASURER 

To Cash Received — 

Subscriptions $11,799 49 

Interest on deposits 145 76 

Total $11,945 25 

By Cash Paid — 

■/ Karl Bitter, as per contract $9,240 00 

Gorham Company for casting . . . . 1,828 83 

Stacy Reeves & Sons 90 00 

Bureau Brothers 66 66 

Roman Bronze Company 45 00 

Robert D. Kelly, for moving statue . 18 43 
Clerical service and postage .... 149 24 
L. Dreka, engraving cards for presen- 
tation ceremonies 45 25 

Sundries 80 27 

Printing and distributing report ... 335 50 

11,899 18 

* Balance $46 07 



* This balance has been turned over by the Committee to the Treasurer 
of the Department of Archaeology of the University, to be used for the care 
of the statue. 



CEREMONIES 

INCIDENT TO THE PRESENTATION 

OF THE 

MONUMENT 

TO 

WILLIAM PEPPER, M.D., LL.D. 

AT 

THE FORMAL OPENING OF THE FRfiE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE 

AND ART, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, 

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2oth, 1899 



ORDER OF EXERCISES 

1. Presentation of the Building to the Trustees by Daniel 

Baugh, Esq., President of the Board of Managers of the 
Department of Archeeology and Palaeontology. 

2. Report of the Building Committee, by Clarence H. Clark, 

Esq., Chairman of the Committee. 

3. Presentation to the Trustees of the statue of Dr. William 

Pepper by Hon. George F. Edmunds on behalf of the 
Testimonial Committee. 

4. Acceptance of the Building and Statue on behalf of the 

Trustees of the University by Charles Custis Harrison, 
LL. D., Provost of the University. 

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CEREMONIES AT THE FREE MUSEUM OF 

SCIENCE AND ART, UNIVERSITY 

OF PENNSYLVANIA 




HE following guests were invited to sit upon the 
platform : — 

Hon. William A. Stone, Governor of Pennsylvania. 
Hon. Samuel H. Ashbridge, Mayor of Philadelphia. 
Hon. James L. Miles, President of Select Council of the city of 

Philadelphia. 
Hon. Wencel Hartman, President of Common Council of the 

city of Philadelphia. 
Hon. Charles F. Warwick, ex-Mayor of Philadelphia. 
Hon. George F. Edmunds. 
Charles Custis Harrison, LL. D., Provost of the University 

of Pennsylvania. 



Frederick Fraley, LL. D., 

William Sellers, 

John Vaughan Merrick, 

Richard Wood, 

Silas Weir Mitchell, M. D., LL.D., 

Rev. George Dana Boardman, 
D. D., LL. D., 

Horace Howard Furness, Ph. D., 
LL. D., Litt. D., 

Wharton Barker, 

Samuel Dickson, 

John Clarke Sims, 

Hon. Samuel Whitaker Penny- 
packer, LL. D., 

Rt. Rev. Ozi William Whitaker, 
D. D., LL. D., 



John Barnard Gest, 

Joseph Smith Harris, 

Walter George Smith, 

William West Frazier, 

Morris James Lewis, M. D., 

Joseph George Rosengarten, 

Randal Morgan, 

James McCrea, 

Samuel Frederic Houston, 

Jacob Mandes Da Costa, M. D., 

LL. D., 
Rev. Jesse Young Burk, 
Edgar Fahs Smith, Ph. D., Sc. D., 
Daniel Baugh, 
Clarence H. Clark, 
Robert C. H. Brock, 



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CEREMONIES William L. Elkins, 

ATTHEFREEg N. Farren, 

MUSEUM OF ^ . , , 11 c -11 

SCIENCE AND P''^'- Maxwell SommerviUe, 

ART John Sparhawk, Jr., 

Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson, 

Justus C. Strav/bridge, 

Hon. John Wanamaker, 

Hon. Calvin Wells, 

Col. Joseph Willcox, 

Dr. Talcott Williams, 

William C. Allison, 

Henry Chapman, Jr., 

E. W. Clark, 

Charles H. Cramp, 

Mrs. Lucy Wharton Drexel, 

Miss Eleanor Blodgett, 

Robert Foerderer, 

Mrs. William Frishmuth, 



Dr. Wm. Henry Furness, 3d, 

Mrs. John Harrison, 

Mrs. Charles C. Harrison, 

Mrs. Phebe A. Hearst, 

William P. Henszey, 

Mrs. Walter M. James, 

William J. Latta, 

J. Dundas Lippincott, 

Benjamin Smith Lyman, 

Henry C. Mercer, 

Mrs. Charles Piatt, Jr., 

Harry Rogers, 

Rev. Henry Clay Trumbull 

George D. Widener, 

Mrs. George D. Widener, 

P. A. B. Widener, 

Mrs. Jones Wister, 

Stuart Wood. 



Mrs. Pepper, 

William Pepper, M. D., 

B. Franklin Pepper, 

O. H. Perry Pepper, 

Mrs. Perry, 

John S. Gerhard, 

Mrs. John S. Gerhard, 

Miss Gerhard, 

Albert S. Gerhard, 

James B. Leonard, 

Miss Leonard, 

Miss Katherine B. Leonard, 

Sydney L. Wright, 

Mrs. Sydney L. Wright, 

Miss Wright, 

George Wharton Pepper, 

Mrs. George Wharton Pepper, 

Dr. J. Alison Scott, 

Mrs. J. Alison Scott, 

Ernest Zantzinger, 



Mrs. Ernest Zantzinger, 
Charles Piatt, 
Mrs. Charles Piatt, 
Miss Piatt, 
Karl Bitter, 
Henry M. Watts, 
W. Carlton Watts, 
Miss Marion Watts, 
William Piatt Pepper, 
Mrs. William Piatt Pepper, 
Misses Pepper, 
John Lafarge, 
Mrs. John Lafarge, 
Charles Piatt, Jr., 
Charles Piatt, 3d, 
David Pepper, 
David Pepper, Jr., 
Mrs. David Pepper, Jr., 
Mrs. J. Wain Vaux, 
The Messrs. Vaux, 



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Miss Vaux, 
Mrs. John Gwinn, 
Mrs. J. Howard Gibson, 
Miss Gibson, 
Miss Mary K. Gibson, 
Henry C. Gibson, 
John Sheaff, 
Mrs. John Sheaff, 
Frederick S. Pepper, 
Mrs. Frederick S. Pepper, 
Mrs. Clayton Piatt, 
John Piatt, 
Clayton Piatt, 
Clayton Piatt, Jr., 
Mrs. Clayton Piatt, Jr., 
John W. Pepper, 



Mrs. John W. Pepper, 
Mrs. Henry Pepper, 
W. Brooke Rawle, 
Mrs. W. Brooke Rawle, 
Francis C. Harris, 
Mrs. Francis C. Harris, 
Mrs. Leverett Bradley, 
Dr. James MacAlister, 
Theodore N. Ely, 
Dr. William P. Wilson, 
Mrs. Edwin H. Fitler, Sr., 
Edwin H. Fitler, 
William W. Fitler, 
Mrs. Daniel Baugh, 
Mrs. Charles H. Howell, 
Mrs. George R. Howell. 



CEREMONIES 
AT THE FREE 
MUSEUM OF 
SCIENCE AND 
ART 





ADDRESS 

BV 

DANIEL BAUGH, Esq. 

, ■ DELIVERED AT THE OPENING OF THE 

Free Museum of Science and Art of the University 

OF Pennsylvania 

AND THE 

Presentation of the Statue 
December 2oth, 1899 



3, 




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ADDRESS BY DANIEL BAUGH, Esq. 

Mr. Provost, Gentlemen of the Board of Trustees 
OF the University of Pennsylvania, Ladies and 
Gentlemen : 

is my duty as President of the Department of 
Archaeology and Palaeontology, to present to 
you on behalf of the Board of Managers an 
official report of the work which was freely as- 
sumed by us six years ago, and of which the first part 
is now completed. 

I will leave to the Chairman of the Building Commit- 
tee the task of giving you the exact details and figures, 
but I may now state that the edifice in which we are as- 
sembled, and which it is my privilege to-day to formally 
transfer through you to the University of Pennsylvania, to 
become part of its property forever, represents with its 
mechanical plant and furniture a total expenditure of $385,- 
000. These figures, of course, do not include the ground 
upon which it stands, which is estimated at ^225,000, nor 
the extensive collections housed within its walls, the value 
of which is far greater than that of the building itself 

The present plan greatly exceeds in its proportions 
that originally proposed. In 1893 the first steps were 
taken by some of us to secure a Museum building at a 
total cost of ^150,000. This change in the plan was due 
to the late Dr. William Pepper, who, anxious to provide 
for a more imposing structure, increased his own original 
subscription of $5000 to $50,000. His liberality was soon 
emulated by others. Thus the present plant was secured. 

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ADDRESS It is a cause of sincere regret to the Managers of the 

BAUGH Eso Department, as well as to the architects, that the dome, 
without which the edifice now stands architecturally de- 
- fective, remains unfinished. The foundations were laid, 
but in view of his fast failing health Dr. Pepper deemed 
it wise to complete the portion of the building now open, 
and to trust to the future for its crowning feature. 

Six sections of the present structure are the gifts of 
individuals — Dr. William Pepper, Mrs. Edwin H. Fitler 
and her children, William L. Elkins, P. A. B. Widener, 
B. N. Farren, and myself. 

In the six years of hard labor represented by the build- 
ing as it now stands, many changes have taken place. 

Of the original Building Committee, who for the first 
time on January 21st, 1893, ^i^t at the house of the Chair- 
man to consider the possibility of doing what to-day is an 
accomplished fact, some are dead whilst others are far 
away. Their places have been filled by other efficient, gen- 
erous, and willing men, and although painfully conscious 
of loss, we have gone on and the work has been done. 
It is but fair, however, as only two of us are left, to record 
their names : They were the late Provost Pepper, Hon. 
Charlemagne Tower, then President of the Department, 
Prof. Maxwell Sommerville, Mr. C. Howard Colket, Mrs. 
J. Dundas Lippincott, Mrs. John Harrison. Mrs. Cornelius 
Stevenson was the Secretary of the Committee, and I had 
the honor of being its Chairman. Mr. Charles H. Cramp 
was almost immediately added to the number. This Com- 
mittee, working under the inspiring leadership of Dr. 
Pepper, did pioneer work and aroused interest in the 
undertaking. 

Through its exertions the Building Fund was started. 
After an earnest effort, lasting several months, a tract of 
eight acres of the Almshouse ground, already reserved 
by ordinance of July 6th, 1883, for a public park, was, by 

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ordinance of Councils, approved March 30th, 1894, con- address 
veyed to the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, baugh Esq 
in trust, to lay out and maintain as and for a museum, 
park, and botanical garden without expense to the city, 
the same to be open to the free access of the public at 
all times forever under suitable regulations, and also to 
erect thereon a Free Museum of Science and Art without 
expense to the said city. 

The University formally accepted these conditions and 
placed their carrying out under the direction of the De- 
partment of Archaeology and Palaeontology, with authority 
to lay out the grounds and to procure the plans and 
specifications for the erection of a Free Museum of Sci- 
ence and Art, with the understanding that the funds for 
such work were to be secured by this Department, and 
that there should be no occasion to apply any portion 
of the general funds of the University thereto. 

Through its President, Mr. Tower, the Department 
pledged itself to this task, and asked the Board of Trustees 
for the authority to apply to the Legislature at its next 
session for an appropriation toward the construction 'of 
Museum buildings upon the site assigned for that purpose. 

This authority was granted by you on May ist, 1894. 
And in 1895, after considerable effort, the Legislature ap- 
propriated $200,000 to the University, $150,000 of which, 
by previous agreement, was devoted to the erection of 
this building, with the understanding that an equal amount 
be raised by private subscriptions. 

In October, 1895, ^Y ordinance of Councils approved 
by Mayor Warwick, an additional acre and one-seventh 
of the ground was granted the University by the city 
under the same conditions as the former grant, which 
enabled the Building Committee to place the structure 
at a suitable distance from the street and to reserve the 
western corner as an open space. 

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ADDRESS Meantime the plans, drawn by the architects, Messrs. 

BAUGH Eso Wilson Eyre, Frank Miles Day & Bro., and Cope & 
Stewardson, had been diligently studied, and at the 
meeting held at the house of the Chairman on December 
1 8th, 1895, the Committee submitted the result of its 
labors for approval to the Board of Managers, at the 
same time reporting that the amount necessary to secure 
the State appropriation had been fully subscribed. 

The report and plans were approved, and the Commit- 
tee was instructed to get bids upon the western section. 
(Plan A, December i8th, 1895.) 

The winter of 1895 ^.nd 1896 was spent in working 
out details and in getting bids and specifications. A 
mechanical engineer. Dr. Drysdale, was added to our 
corps of architects. In the early summer the foundations 
were begun. At this time Messrs. C. H. Clark, B. N. 
Farren, W. L. Elkins, P. A. B. Widener, Theodore N. 
Ely, John Wanamaker, Justus C. Strawbridge, and Samuel 
F. Houston had joined the Building Committee, Messrs. 
Strawbridge and Houston taking full charge of the 
grounds. From that time the work steadily progressed, 
until, on July 28th, 1898, it received a sudden check in 
the death of Dr. William Pepper. 

As Provost of the University Dr. Pepper had early 
understood the value and meaning of such an educational 
plant in a community. The generous encouragement 
which he gave to the development of Archaeology in this 
city endeared him to those who worked along such lines. 
After he resigned the Provostship of the University he 
had been prevailed upon to accept the Presidency of this 
Department, Mr. Tower having resigned, but continuing 
his helpful interest in the work. 

Under his leadership, nothing appeared impossible. 
He gave freely himself and led others to give, and his 
masterful mind grasped every detail, leaving nothing to 

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chance. At the time of his death he was turning his address 
attention to the raising of an endowment fund, with a baugh Esq 
view to securing the running expenses of this estabhsh- 
ment, and several Hberal subscriptions had already been 
made by Messrs. John H. Converse, William P. Henszey, 
Charles H. Cramp, Samuel Dickson, and Mrs. J. Edgar 
Thomson. 

For awhile it seemed as though without him the work 
could not be carried on. But his co-workers rallied from 
the shock, with a firm determination, whatever the cost, 
to bring this undertaking to a worthy and successful 
termination. Messrs. Clarence H. Clark, Robert C. H. 
Brock, Samuel F. Houston, Justus C. Strawbridge, Calvin 
Wells, John Sparkawk, Jr., John Wanamaker, and myself 
guaranteed the amount necessary to carry on the work 
until the completion of the building. And I may say that 
my colleagues have nobly performed their self-imposed 
duty. 

To Mr. Clarence H. Clark, Chairman of the Building 
Committee, and to Mr. John Sparhawk, Jr., the Treasurer, 
are especially due our thanks. They have devoted to the 
work, not only of their means, but an amount of time and 
of businesslike attention without which it is difficult to 
imagine how the task could have been performed. 

At the time of Dr. Pepper's death nothing had been 
considered with regard to the necessary equipment and 
furnishing of the building. 

Mr. Clark, with the architects, undertook the difficult 
task and successfully administered this troublesome part 
of the undertaking. 

It is also under his able management that the installa- 
tion of the collections has been carried out. The latter 
represented the accumulation of ten years and the result 
of many important expeditions and excavations, some of 
which were prosecuted directly under the auspices of the 

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ADDRESS Department. Owing: to lack of space a large proportion 
BY DANIEL • . o i i 

BAUGH Eso °f ^^^^ accumulation has not yet been unpacked. To 
provide for all this was a serious undertaking. 

A balance of $35,000 in the building fund, left over 
and above the contracts for construction, was used for 
this purpose. Mr. William L. Elkins, Mr. B. N. Farren, 
and myself each provided for the installation of our re- 
spective foundations. Mrs. Phebe A. Hearst and Mrs. 
Lucy Wharton Drexel also agreed to install their collec- 
tions. In this way some $20,000 were added to the 
available fund. With careful management the work has 
been completed, and a dignified though economical equip- 
ment has been secured. 

No historic record of this edifice can be regarded as 
complete, or even as accurate, without a mention of the 
share which the Secretary, Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson, has 
had in its conception as well as in its erection. From the 
beginning she brought most of us together, working with 
us shoulder to shoulder, and often pointing the way. 

Were I to allow myself the indulgence of a retro- 
spective glance at the early period of the Museum pro- 
ject, I would detain you too long. But I cannot refrain 
from speaking this word of just tribute to the intelligent 
zeal, unsparingly manifested by Mrs. Stevenson, which 
inspired every early effort. Her faculty of interesting 
others was so kindly and earnestly exercised, and with 
such gentle enthusiasm, that the way towards the de- 
velopment of her plans and hopes seemed easy. 

The value of an educational Museum, such as this, 
largely depends upon the accuracy of the record kept of 
the history of its collections, as well as upon the clear- 
ness of the manner in which this record is placed before 
the visitor. 

The method of exhibition, the classification of the ma- 
terial, the character of the labels, the use of charts, maps, 

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and diagrams, form in themselves a science which trans- address 
forms an insignificant fragment into an eloquent witness, baugh Esq 
and without which the most beautiful object is but a mere 
relic, dead and silent before our eyes. To quote the cele- 
brated words of an eminent man now dead, Dr. G. Brown 
Goode, such intelligent methods have transformed the 
museum of the past "from a cemetery of bric-a-brac into 
a nursery of living thoughts." 

Too much credit, therefore, cannot be given to our 
Curators, Mrs. Stevenson, Dr. Hilprecht, Mr. Culin, Pro- 
fessor Sommerville, and Mr. Wilson Eyre, for the manner 
in which they have studied and planned the display of the 
collections placed under their charge. The labeling as yet 
is by no means complete ; but enough has already been 
done to indicate the excellent method followed, and I feel 
safe in stating that before long our. Museum will justify 
Professor Huxley's definition and become "a consultative 
library of objects." 

With the beginning of a new century this Museum as- 
sumes its place among the permanent establishments of 
this time-honored Institution. It must stand in years to 
come a dignified monument to the progress of human 
thought in the nineteenth century. 

Ninety-eight years ago Grotefend, in Europe, was feel- 
ing his way to the first spelling out of the Persian cunei- 
form character, and only from 1840 to i860 did Colonel 
Rawlinson open up to science the mysteries of ancient 
Assyrian and Babylonian inscriptions. Yet to-day, in ad- 
dition to those already translated and published, there are 
within these walls here in Philadelphia some forty thou- 
sand inscribed tablets, forming a part of the results of our 
great Nippur Expedition, planned and organized by Dr. 
John P. Peters, undertaken by Mr. E. W. Clark and his 
committee and supporters, and continued by Dr. Haynes 
under the supervision of Dr. Hermann V. Hilprecht. 

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ADDRESS This immense amount of scientific material is now 

BY DANIEL , , r i i i • • i i- • 

BAUGH Esq. ^pen to the Study oi scholars and awaiting pubhcation. 

Only eighty years have elapsed since the key to the 
decipherment of hieroglyphics was wrenched by Champol- 
lion from the Egyptian Sphinx, yet now, as you pass 
through the Egyptian Hall and glance at the objects dis- 
played in its cases, you will read accurate translations of 
the words which their former owners thought worthy to 
hand down to posterity, and their very names, some of 
which are almost as familiar to us as those of Numa 
or Pompey. The intellectual activity of this century of 
wonders has not only conquered space, it has also con- 
quered time, and to-day, to a well-equipped university, 
destined to turn out men fitted to enter the world such as 
modern science has made it, a museum is no less a neces- 
sity than is a chemical laboratory or a school of engineer- 
ing. For it has well been said that a college which im- 
parts only second-hand knowledge to its students, belongs 
to a stage of civilization which is fast being left behind. 

It is worthy of remark that the space available in the 
new building is already almost inadequate to the necessi- 
ties of the Curators, both with regard to exhibition space 
and to store room. The Babylonian Hall is full, the 
Egyptian Hall is crowded, and nearly the whole of the 
hall assigned to the Mediterranean is occupied by the 
splendid results of excavations conducted in Etruria for 
the American Exploration Society under the direction of 
Prof. A. L. Frothingham, and the gifts of Mrs. Phebe A. 
Hearst and Hon. John Wanamaker. Little space is left 
in Pepper Hall, where are exhibited the superb casts ob- 
tained through the efforts of Mrs. Charles Piatt, Jr., as 
well as the collection of original Roman sculpture pre- 
sented by Mrs. Drexel. Already the Elkins Library has 
been encroached upon for the proper display of Mr. 
R. C. H. Brock's fine collection of coins, and the section 

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assigned for the Asiatic Continent has been broken into address 
for the exhibition of Professor Sommerville's valuable baugh Eso 
collection of Glyptics, now temporarily [installed near 
the unique Buddhistic temple, which we also owe to his 
liberality. 

Important collections, such as those from Polynesia, 
Peru, and Florida, principally gifts of Dr. William Pepper, 
are only partly displayed, in order to make room for 
the fine Furness-Harrison-Hiller collection from Borneo, 
for Mrs. Hearst's cliff-dweller's collection, for Mrs. Frish- 
muth's important series of musical instruments, and for 
Mrs. Drexel's charming collection of fans. 

The collection made by Dr. and Mrs. Talcott Williams 
in Morocco, and Mrs. Hearst's Russian collection, are in- 
adequately displayed — indeed, it will be necessary to fit 
out parts of the basement and to turn them into exhibi- 
tion rooms before anything like justice can be done to 
the material which we possess, and much anthropological 
and ethnological material is now stored, as well as the 
surplus accumulations of the Babylonian, Egyptian, and 
Mediterranean sections. 

It is impossible in the brief time at my disposal to do 
justice to the many valuable gifts made to this Museum 
by generous individuals. Only a few days ago Mr. John 
Wanamaker presented an interesting Eskimo collection 
from Point Barrow, and a beautiful collection of gold jew- 
elry from the Etruscan region, and to-day Mrs. Dillwyn 
Parrish, of London, announces by cable, in the name of 
her late husband, a bequest of a superb Mosaic pavement 
from ancient Carthage, which is to form the beginning of 
a collection to be known as the " Dillwyn Parrish Collec- 
tion." This gift is accompanied with an annuity of not 
less than $500 for the maintenance and increase of the 
collection. Truly, a most fitting memorial to a man 
whose taste and knowledge as a collector are well known. 

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ADDRESS Xhe generous contributions of Mrs. John Harrison, of 

BAUGH Esq Hon. Calvin Wells, of Mrs. Jones Wister, of Mr. Eckley 
B. Coxe, Jr., and of other enlightened citizens have en- 
abled the American Exploration Society to ally itself to 
and to co-operate with the Egypt Exploration Fund, and, 
owing to a most liberal treatment by the London Com- 
mittee, the American Exploration Society has secured for 
Philadelphia a noble series of Egyptian monuments of 
rare value, which are a part of Mr. W. M. Flinders- 
Petrie's recent remarkable "finds" in the Nile Valley. 

It is therefore evident that if the scientific activities of 
the Department continue such as they have been in the 
past, further provision for growth must now become im- 
perative. Ample space, however, has been provided for 
such growth on the nine acres of ground devoted to that 
purpose, and the plans are ready for gradual additions, to 
be made by those who will succeed us. 

To-day, Mr. Provost and gentlemen of the Board of 
Trustees, we have invited you to come and receive from 
us this building, free from debt, fully furnished, and with 
the accumulated collections of ten years' standing in- 
stalled. We feel that we have faithfully discharged the 
obligation toward the University contracted in our behalf 
in 1894 by my predecessor, Hon. Charlemagne Tower, 
and that we have carried out for the Trustees the agree- 
ment then made with the municipality, to erect upon 
the ground secured by this Department from the city a 
Free Museum of Science and Art, with funds obtained 
by us without cost to the University. 





REPORT BY CLARENCE H. CLARK, Esq. 

Mr. Provost, Gentlemen of the Board of Trustees 
OF THE University of Pennsylvania, Ladies and 
Gentlemen : 

I HE Museum Building as projected by the late 
Dr, Pepper, designed under his direction by the 
associate architects, Messrs. F. Miles Day & 
Bro., Messrs. Cope & Stewardson, and Mr. Wil- 
son Eyre, Jr., with Dr. W. A. Drysdale, consulting elec- 
trical engineer, when completed, will occupy a large por- 
tion of the lot of ground, some nine acres in extent, 
given by the city of Philadelphia to the University of 
Pennsylvania as a site for a Museum of Science and 
Art and for a Botanical Garden. 

The cost of the entire building, it is estimated, will 
be from $2,000,000 to $2,500,000. 

Less than one-fifth of the building has up to this time 
been finished, at an outlay of about $385,000. 

Our hope had been that the dome, estimated to cost 
$125,000, which naturally forms a part of the wing 
already erected, and which will add so much to the 
external appearance of the structure, could have been 
built and dedicated at this time. 

Unfortunately, Dr. Pepper died before this sum could 
be secured, and since his death no one has felt equal to 
the task. 

It is to be hoped that in the near future means may 
be secured wherewith additions may be made to the ex- 
isting structure, as more room is sorely needed to ac- 
commodate the collections owned by the Museum and at 
this time not on exhibition. 

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REPORT BY The cost of the new Museum Building^, already 

CLARK, Esq. erected, with the furniture and fixtures, will be approxi- 
mately $385,300, as follows : — 

Building, including foundations $270,304 47 

Mechanical plant, including electric lighting 40,438 25 

Architects and Superintendent 30,902 49 

Furniture and sundry extras 43,685 87 

Total $385,331 08 

This sum has been provided by subscriptions, as 
follows : — 

State of Pennsylvania $150,000 00 

Dr. William Pepper 50,000 00 

Fitler Estate 30,000 00 

Daniel Baugh 34,800 00 

William L. Elkins 35,000 00 

P. A. B. Widener 30,000 00 

B. N. Farren 13,500 00 

Mrs. Lucy Wharton Drexel 5,770 00 

Charlemagne Tower, Jr 5,000 00 

C. Howard Colket 5,000 00 

Charles H. Cramp 5,000 00 

Mrs. Phebe A. Hearst 5, 000 00 

J. C. Strawbridge . 5,000 00 

Dr. W. A. Drysdale 2,175 78 

John Harrison 2,000 00 

William Piatt Pepper 1,000 00 

Miss Eleanor Blodgett 500 00 

R. E. Glendinning 500 00 

Carl Edelheim 500 00 

S. F. Houston 1,000 00 

Alfred C. Harrison 1,000 00 

Warren Webster & Co 500 00 

Samuel Roberts Vicars 200 00 

Miss C. D. Kates 100 00 

Total $383,545 78 

Interest collected on moneys in bank during construction, 8,293 06 

Total $391,838 84 

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Of the total cost of the building, ^369,656.46 has up Report by 
to date been paid in cash, leaving |i 5,674.62 yet to be clark Esq 
paid. 

We still have in the hands of our Treasurer a mod- 
erate sum over and above the sum yet to be paid as 
stated, with which to meet any further expenditures that 
may be authorized by the Board of Managers. 

We can look upon the work as substantially finished : 
the building as far as at this time projected, the collec- 
tions as far as possible installed ; and our only regret 
is that the man to whom the city and the University 
owe this grand monument was not permitted to live to 
see the consummation of his hopes. 





ADDRESS 



BY 



THE HONORABLE GEORGE F. EDMUNDS 

Presentation of Statue and Endowment 

TO THE 

Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania 
December 20th, 1899 



PRESENTATION ADDRESS 



BY THE HONORABLE GEORGE E EDMUNDS 

Mr. Provost, Gentlemen of the Board of Trustees 
OF the University of Pennsylvania, and Ladies 
AND Gentlemen : 




r is my glad and grateful privilege, on behalf of the 
Dr. Pepper Memorial Committee and of many 
of the friends of the late Dr. William Pepper 
who were associated or co-operated with him 
in the very interesting and important archaeological work 
of which many triumphs are displayed in this building, 
to present to the Trustees of the University the bronze 
statue of that great, unselfish, and loving benefactor of 
the people of this city and of his State, and, in a broader 
sense, of his race. The statue rests on the grounds of 
this building, calmly to take the sunshine and the storms 
of nature, as he calmly took the plaudits of grateful cit- 
izens or the storm (if any there was) of opposition to his 
broad plans and persistent efforts to promote in every 
way the true material and social welfare and progress 
of the City and State, as well as of learning and science, 
for the good of all mankind. I cannot on this occasion 
give even an outline of his career. This must be left 
to better hands and another time ; indeed, now and here, 
it is not needed ; it is known to you all. 

The idea of a testimonial to Dr. Pepper originated in 
the Department of Archaeology in the winter of 1894, 
while he was living. It was at first intended to invite him 
to sit for a bust, to be given to the University by a few of 

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ADDRESS his friends and co-workers. But on his announcing his 
HONORABLE intention to resign the Provostship of the University at 
GEORGE F. the following June Commencement, it was decided to make 
EDMUNDS ^YiQ tribute more formal, and at the same time to make the 
offering more worthy. 

A Committee was formed of representatives of the 
Board of Trustees, of the Faculty, and of the various 
Departments of the University. These elected Hon. 
Charlemagne Tower, (then President of the Department of 
Archaeology and a Trustee of the University) Chairman, 
Rev. Jesse Y. Burk (the Secretary of the University) 
Treasurer, and Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson (Secretary of the 
Department of Archaeology) Secretary, and resolved upon 
Va statue by Karl Bitter. As the time was short, it was 
decided that the model of the bust, then well under way, 
should be used at the June Commencement, announce- 
ment being made that a statue was to be presented and 
that Dr. Horace Howard Furness be invited to make 
the formal address on that occasion. The model bust 
then used now stands in " Pepper Hall." 

At a meeting held in May, 1894, the Chairman was 
authorized to appoint a committee of five, of which him- 
self, the Treasurer, and Secretary should be members, 
with power to raise and disburse the necessary funds, 
attend to all details of the undertaking, and otherwise 
carry it to completion, and with power to fill all vacancies 
in its own body. The Chairman appointed Mr. Baugh 
and Mr. Strawbridge, and upon Mr. Tower's departure for 
Austria, Mr. Strawbridge was elected Chairman. Upon 
Mr. Burk's becoming incapacitated by illness, Mr. Baugh 
was elected Treasurer. The accomplished Secretary has 
remained the same. The statue intended as a testimonial 
has become a memorial. One hundred and forty-eight sub- 
scribers contributed to the fund — some humble friends gave 
a few cents, some more favored in means gave hundreds 

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of dollars, or even thousands — but throug'hout it has been address 

BY THE 

a labor of appreciative love, now turned by death into a honorable 
tribute of enduring respect and admiration. GEORGE F. 

The archaeological work which has led to this special Edmunds 
memorial, and to which work Dr. Pepper contributed 
largely of his means and — far more important — the wealth 
of his great talents and knowledge and the untiring and 
persistent energy which characterized all his varied work, 
has proved of very great value. The solution of the 
mystery of the beginnings of the social and national life of 
our race has been for centuries among the chief objects of 
historians, philosophers, and students. Through the efforts 
of such as Dr. Pepper and his co-workers, who join in this 
testimonial, the cloud which has so long rested on the far 
past has slowly but surely been lifted. Europe, from her 
caves and lakes, has given us something of the story of 
her earliest peoples. Asia has, from the depths of the 
earth at Troy, Babylon, Nippur, and elsewhere, restored 
to us the evidences of a civilization flourishing long before 
regular and definite historic chronology began. Africa 
and our own Western Hemisphere have furnished contri- 
butions not less valuable. The poet's "arch of splendor, 
bridging the gulf of long ago," is becoming something 
more than a dream, and through such efforts as this great 
University and others are making the hunger for more 
knowledge of the earliest history of the human race is 
being in some degree appeased. Thus this memorial 
statue becomes also a milestone of progress. But it 
should be, and I am sure it will be in the loving keeping 
of the University, much more. It will, so long as the 
bronze figure of this great man and worker endures and 
brings to the memory and thoughts of the beholders his 
life and beneficent career, be an inspiration to that ardent 
and earnest and honest life and work which alone can 
bring happiness and success to man and to nations. 

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ADDRESS Mr, Provost and Gentlemen of the Board of Trustees : 

BY THE 

HONORABLE I have it in charg'e for the friend of myself and my 

r^PORCT^ E 

EDMUNDS family, Mrs. Frances Sergeant Pepper, the widow of the late 
Dr. William Pepper, to deliver to you her gift of $50,000 
in money, with a deed of trust relating to the same, as 
an endowment fund for the maintenance of the hall in the 
Museum which bears his name. This memorial donation 
comes from one whose best and most sacred ties of human 
life were suddenly broken by his death. I may not on 
such an occasion as this speak of the sorrows that always 
do and always must attend such bereavements in the family 
household, but I may speak of the loving remembrances 
which endure and of the faith which assures us that to the 
tender and true such separations are of brief duration. 
This gracious lady, herself a lineal descendant of Benjamin 
Franklin, whose wise and beneficent work for this city 
and his country still remains in flourishing institutions 
established by him for the increase of knowledge and for 
the development of free social and political organization, 
knows in looking back upon the career of her gifted hus- 
band that it is not the length of days which makes up the 
fullness of life, but it is that "he filled his space with 
deeds, not with lingering years." It is with this sentiment 
that she establishes this endowment in memor)^ of the 
husband she loved and whom we all loved. It is a monu- 
ment that she trusts will endure longer than structures of 
marble or bronze, and will, in the keeping of this great 
seat of learning, from year to year in the long time to 
come, continue to be, like a perpetual fountain, the re- 
freshment and stimulus of those seekers after knowledge 
and truth who, like the man whose name she commemo- 
rates, strive with brave, true hearts, as lovers of their fellow- 
men, for the best good that comes from such endeavors. 
I now, in the name of Mrs. Pepper, deliver to you this 



fund and her deed of gift. 



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ADDRESS 



BY 



CHARLES CUSTIS HARRISON, LL. D. 

Provost of the University of Pennsylvania 
December 2oth, 1899 



ADDRESS BY 
CHARLES CUSTIS HARRISON, LL. D. 

Mr. President, Managers of the Department of Arche- 
ology AND Paleontology, Ladies and Gentlemen : 




r gives me great pleasure to receive for the Trus- 
tees of the University of Pennsylvania this mag- 
nificent result of the thought, the labors, and gen- 
erous gifts of the past six years, and upon your 
behalf to declare the Free Museum of Science and Art 
from henceforth open for its scholastic and its public uses. 
Mr. Mayor and gentlemen, members of the Select and 
Common Councils of the city of Philadelphia : It gives me 
an equal pleasure to thus announce to the municipal 
authorities the fulfillment of the pledge made to them 
when they granted to the University this land in trust for 
Museum purposes, and to reiterate the grateful thanks 
with which the Trustees received that renewed mark of 
the civic confidence, without which the erection of this 
Museum would have been impossible or indefinitely de- 
layed. 

I am sure that in planning this Museum and in medi- 
tating upon its purposes, all who have had to do with it 
recognize the study of the life of man upon this planet to 
be a filial duty and a reverent object of University investi- 
gation. We of to-day are what we are and owe what we 
are to those who have gone before us. Our hopes and 
fears, our purposes and plans, our ability to achieve, our 



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ADDRESS BY failures as to results, come to us, not only from our imme- 
PROVOST ,. ,. 1 ,...•'-.. 

HARRISON clia-te surroundmgs, but are the mhentors oi a time that 
is past. We cannot cut ourselves by any line of cleavage 
from yesterday, and say to ourselves that we will live for 
to-day. We are debtors to the past and responsible to 
the future, precisely as the child of to-day is interested in 
and dependent upon the life and character of his parents 
or his remoter ancestors. We cannot separate ourselves 
from that by history, but must assimilate it in our own lives 
and transmit it with what we have done to those who are to 
come after us. And so the duty of the University is to 
take up the larger question of the history and the daily 
life of bygone times. To the University and to those who 
are interested in this work nothing which concerns hu- 
manity is alien. There has been, then, undertaken by the 
civic interest of those benefactors, the duty of illustrating 
here the life of man upon this planet — sometimes it may 
be only in broad sketches, at other times in its minutest 
details, what has been the history of the progress of the 
races ; what light was shed upon their pathway ; how they 
dealt with one another ; or what was their progress in the 
arts of life. Is it nothing to one who passes by that here 
you may see the door socket of the Temple of Baal, at Ur 
of the Chaldees, where Abraham worshipped before he 
went into another country, not knowing whither he went ? 
Is it nothing to you who pass by that at the time when this 
man was showing his faith by taking his flocks and herds 
from the Euphrates Valley to the shores of the Mediter- 
ranean, there was one also in Egypt to whom the witness 
had not been vouchsafed in vain, but whose heart re- 
sponded to the rain from heaven and the fruitful seasons ? 
So that there was inscribed upon the Egyptian's resting 
place such an epitaph as this : " I did that which was right. 
I hated evil. I gave bread to the hungry and water to 
the thirsty ; clothes to the naked, succor to him who was 

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in need. I harmed not a child. I injured not a widow. ADDRESS BY 
There was neither beggar nor needy in my time ; none HARRISON 
went hungry. I did that which was pleasing to my parents. 
My door stood open to him w^ho entered from without, 
and I refreshed him." 

Such records as these — elevating to us all — are their 
own great reward. And yet they represent periods so late 
in human history that we may call them almost " modern " 
events. Far back in the history of the world — as far back 
in this recital as we are on the hither side of it — has parts 
of that history been written in authentic characters through 
the work of the Department of Archaeology of the Univer- 
sity of Pennsylvania. The humanity which has made the 
whole world kin is proven by what is here deposited, and, 
naturally, not only what is of good in human nature, but 
what is of evil. We find the King of Assyria pleading 
with the King of Egypt for greater gifts of gold in ex- 
change for precious and rare jewels ; but we find the jew- 
els sent in return for the gold of Egypt to be but glass, 
colored adroitly through chemical processes. We find 
the children of Babylonia amused as if in the nursery of 
to-day. There is the Noah's Ark, with the mother, and 
the litter of young dogs, and there the child's rattle of clay. 
So we seek to know of the recreations of the people. We 
find identically the same games in every part of the world, 
going far back of any time at which there is the slighest 
knowledge of any intercommunication. Does music charm, 
or sculpture and painting ennoble ? Here we have instru- 
ments of music, the paintings of the Greek in Egypt, and 
the sculptures of Nineveh. If we watch to-day the course of 
foreign exchange, the rates of money, and the transactions 
of the market place, so we may investigate and know the 
daily life of merchants two thousand five hundred years 
ago. We have here their libraries, their books of accounts. 
We know the basis upon which, as real estate agents, 

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ADDRESS B\ they took care of properties ; the obhrations which were 

PROVOST . ■' 1 r 1 1 • r 1 • • • r 1 1 

HARRISON incurred tor the planting ot trees ; the irrigation ot land ; 
the rates of interest upon which money was loaned. And 
as we know what their interests were in childhood and in 
manhood, so we can follow them to the grave and show 
here the coffins in which their bodies were laid to rest. 

Nor have these men and women gone only to the 
remote East for additions to the fund of knowledge — the 
East, which is in fancy called "the cradle of the race" — 
but they have come West, and further West. Here you 
will find the history of Northern Italy, at a time when the 
"Twin Brothers" were nursed upon the hills of Rome, 
whose thatched hut was sacredly kept as an archaeological 
treasure for so many years amidst the palaces of the 
Caesars. From North and South America the collections 
are no less rich, but it is one of the curious facts in arch- 
aeology that while the chronology of the East may be 
ascertained with reasonable accuracy by comparative 
facts, the chronology of the Western Hemisphere is not 
easily determined. We cannot tell, then, at what precise 
date those "cliff-dwellers" lived, whose life is illustrated 
here in the most perfect way, untouched by any foreign 
contact. We can only know that before any records of 
our history begin, that tribe had long since passed away. 
Time would fail to tell of what has been accomplished 
here in these six years. The collections from Peru ; the 
stone implements, the ethnographical collections from Bor- 
neo — certainly the most perfect in any museum ; religious 
objects from Japan, from Thibet, from the Malay Penin- 
sula, from the Philippine Islands ; costumes of former 
days ; fans of royal quality, decorated by the greatest 
artists ; bronzes and coins, which had their then use as 
tokens of exchange, but now have their significance as 
being inscriptions of historical facts of the highest value 
because unquestioned. So that there have been brought 

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here from every point of the compass the beginnings, at ADDRESS BY 
least, and, in many respects, the completed collections of j^^j^j^jgQj^ 
the history of the world from quite six thousand years B. C. 
to us, the inheritors of eight thousand years of history. 

That upon this great subject of archaeology Philadel- 
phia and the State of Pennsylvania should not be over- 
looked by New York and the greater capitals of Europe 
was the purpose of the late President of the Department 
of Archaeology and his earnest co-workers. 

You, sir, have depicted the activity and unfailing 
resources of the man whose statue is to-day uncovered 
and presented in perpetuity to the University of Penn- 
sylvania. That activity was the record of his life from 
his early boyhood. When a college lad he was always 
making memoranda upon his tablets (with the little 
pencil which he kept in his vest pocket) of things to be 
accomplished, and as often crossing them off with the 
same pencil when accomplished. But the tablet was 
never erased. It was always full, so fast did new things 
follow upon the old. 

The Trustees of the University were glad to assign to 
his statue so public and prominent a site and one so 
near to the latest object of his creative purpose. There 
have been inscribed upon the records of the University, 
in final and imperishable ways, the records of his service 
and the tragedy of his death. Far from home — a con- 
tinent separating him from those who were nearest to 
him — a torrent of irrepressible tears preceded the break- 
ing of his heart. From childhood to his grave, how 
restless, how eventful a life ! Well adopted was his 
motto : " Repose elsewhere." 

And what shall I say in fulfillment of the last and 
tenderest duty? I transmit with sad satisfaction to the 
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania the deed of 
gift which is now so generously offered — a gift of 

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ADDRESS BY «co,ooo towards the endowment of the hall known as 

PROVOST 

HARRISON " Pepper Hall," in this Museum Building — doubtless the 
realization of the purpose of Dr. Pepper, defeated by his 
sudden death. 

There can, I know, be no greater happiness in the use 
of wealth than that which is to come from the safeguard- 
ing of one's fondest recollections. The gentle words in 
which you, sir, have spoken, have already found their 
echo in every breast, for in her absence we may say with 
propriety that no more chaste and gentle heart ever 
beat within our borders, and this gift may bear with it a 
practical significance of deepest moment. 

We are too apt to accept such accomplishments as 
have formed the basis of the occasion of to-day as if 
they came of themselves. They represent, as some of us 
too well know, constant work, disappointment often, 
chagrin often, sometimes not only want of sympathy, 
but a sneer, and too seldom the willing response which 
alone makes a great university, or any of its great de- 
partments, possible in amplest measure. 

This Department, with all its treasures and deposits, 
represents almost exclusively work done in every part of 
the world at private cost, and a work which can only be 
continued and advanced by private help. 

Here the public may come and go. Here " Prue and I " 
may have their place with those who can travel wherever 
their desires may tempt them. May I not ask, then, in 
some appropriate way, that as this great assemblage has 
gathered here to-day to the dedication of the building, to 
the unveiling of the statue, and to hear the tidings of 
Mrs. Pepper's offering, so the day may mark the heart- 
felt interest of a great community in enriching the en- 
dowments and in making easier in the future than it 
has been in the past the task of those whose presently 
completed work is now offered and accepted ? 

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ADDRESS 



BY 



HORACE HOWARD FURNESS, Ph.D., LL.D., Litt. D. 



DELIVERED AT THE 



Commencement of the University of Pennsylvania 

June ioth, 1894 




ADDRESS BY 

HORACE HOWARD FURNESS, 

Ph. D., LL. D., Litt. D. 

Your Excellency (Governor Pattison), Mr. Provost, 
Your Honor (Mayor Stuart), Ladies and Gentle- 
men, AND — "Our Boys": 

IHE Trustees, whom I have the honor to repre- 
sent, have deemed it fitting, on this memorable 
day, when a chapter of the University's history 
is about to be closed, that some note be made 
of the University's present position, and of the influen- 
ces which have guided it thereto. 

The simplest and most natural way of estimating our 
height, is to recall the level whence we sprung. Be not 
terrified. I'll not retreat into the " dark backward and 
abysm of time," one hundred and fifty-four years, to the 
day when this University was founded, but ask you to go 
with me in your memory no further than to the year 1881, 
and, imagining ourselves within the wooden enclosure 
which then surrounds the University, take a bird's-eye 
view of the College buildings. (It needn't be a very large 
bird — I think a sparrow will do.) We see the College 
Hall, the Medical Hall, the Medical and Dental Labora- 
tory, and, a little further off, the half-sized University Hos- 
pital. In all, four buildings, standing on a plot of about 
fifteen and a half acres. Within these buildings, one 
of which holds the modest library of 20,000 volumes, 

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ADDRESS BY aa professors and instructors teach Latin, Greek, Mathe- 

Dr. FURNESS ,• t:- , r- tv/t • tv/t j- • t^ • 

matics, l^rench, German, Music, Medicine, Dentistry, and 

Law to 981 students, of whom by far the larger number 

are in the Medical Department, but all of them hungry 

after knowledge, and the professors have hard work to 

keep their little gaping mouths well filled. 

This was the University thirteen or fourteen years 
ago — sedate, conservative, respectable ; quiescent in the 
belief that the methods of education which were whole- 
some for the fathers must be wholesome and all-sufficient 
for the sons and grandsons. Then came a revival of in- 
terest in education, sweeping like a wind over Europe, 
and reaching these shores. In one of the eddies, accel- 
erated, it may be, by the rush of the nations through our 
Centennial town, our dear old University was caught, and, 
lifting her serene eyes, she, too, pleaded for a wider range 
of usefulness, and a larger recognition. 

The Provost at that time had accomplished a fine task, 
and had guided the University from its dingy, somnolent 
rooms in the heart of the city to these new halls on the 
banks of the Schuylkill ; but the voice of his early love 
still charmed him, that voice from whose accents he had 
learned " How a Free People conduct a long War," and 
under whose inspiration he had sent this knowledge forth, 
to fill with renewed energy and with exhilarating hope the 
hearts of the whole North, from Lincoln, in the Presidential 
chair, down to the armed citizens in the ranks. 

The summons of this voice to those fair but neglected 
fields of historical research. Provost Stille could not dis- 
obey, and from those fields, as we are all proud to know, 
he has since then garnered fruits and harvests which have 
placed his name high among the historians of the land. 

And so we had to find a new Provost. 

Do you think that an easy task ? Bethink you — what 
are the qualities which hope bade us find somewhere or 

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other embodied in one man ? Our ideal Provost had to address by 

be a man of marked individuality (a quality predestined to 

hostile criticism) ; a man of administrative ability (which 

is sure to collide with indolent inertia — the besetting sin 

of students) ; a man of firm will ; able to read the future 

in the instant ; of consummate tact ; and, above all, he 

must be vigilant to discern in the educational heavens the 

signs of the time. Lastly, our ideal Provost, while he 

need not of necessity be an anatomist, must, nevertheless, 

know, to the extremest nicety, the exact location in every 

rich man's body of the pocketbook nerve — that nerve of 

the keenest sensibility in the whole system ; and our ideal 

Provost must know when and where and how to touch 

this nerve so as to excite the largest reflex action. 

Do you think such Provosts are as plenty as black- 
berries ? 

What an anxious time it was, in those far-off days ! 
Numberless were the candidates whose fitness was dis- 
cussed. I remember I was deputed, when in Boston, to 
sound the revered Phillips Brooks, and on two different 
days I pleaded with him. To him whose love for young 
men was commensurate only with his power over them, 
the temptation to accept the office of Provost here was, as 
he repeatedly said, very great. At one time I was filled 
with hope, but at the last he decided that, dearly as he 
loved Philadelphia, the clearer vision forbade him to desert 
his Boston parish. 

You all know where our choice, our happy choice, at 
last fell, thirteen years ago. Would you know how happy 
that choice has proved, lift your eyes and mark : In ad- 
dition to the four buildings which we saw thirteen years 
ago, we now see a Library, as a building one of the finest 
and best equipped in the land, holding within its fire- 
proof walls 120,000 bound volumes, and already becom- 
ing the nucleus of pleasant college memories ; we see an 

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ADDRESS BY Electrical Laboratory, where the thunderbolt which the 
Dr. FURNESS t^ , ^ . . ^^\ . i i r i i • • 

rounder oi this University snatched trom the skies is 

reclaimed from the wild, zigzag courses of its youth, and, 
while teaching us how to control it, is itself taught de- 
corum and sobriety and how to earn its living — or, if 
not "its" living, it is taught to earn ours, which is 
better; we see a large Central Light and Heat Station; 
we see a Veterinary Building, with its long row of 
pathetic hospital stalls — I say "pathetic," because in them 
stand the patient, disabled breadwinners of many and 
many a poor household, to which, by the best skill of this 
beneficent institution, they are restored, when possible, 
sound and ready for renewed gain-giving toil ; behind this 
long, low building we see the pretty, cottage-like Hospital, 
with its piazzas and verandas, where, for that most faithful 
friend of man, the dog, every canine comfort is provided 
in his ailments, and where physic is gently administered, 
and not brutally thrown to him as Macbeth prescribes 
(but what else could we expect from that wicked tyrant ? 
Ah, what profound lessons Shakespeare teaches ! In that 
tragedy he shows us that when once a man has entered 
on the downward path by murdering his king he goes 
from bad to worse, until at last he will not scruple to 
recommend that physic be thrown to dogs ! We always 
administer it at the veterinary gently, with a spoon — and 
plenty of it). Beyond the Veterinary Building stands 
the Biological Building — into whose admirable museums 
and attractive lecture rooms who can enter without wish- 
ing to "call back yesterday, bid Time return," that, once 
more a youth, he can there drink thirsty draughts of the 
knowledge of Life in its Protean forms ? — we note a 
spacious wing added to the Hospital, almost doubling 
its size, and near by, a delightful, attractive Home for 
the nurses, where, during the hours when they are not 
watching by the bed of pain, all the comfort and seclusion 

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of a home are provided for those white-robed ministrants ADDRESS BY 
of mercy'; and on the other side two Maternity Hos- 
pitals ; behind them all, the Mortuary, complete with 
ever)-' appliance suggested by modern skill and experi- 
ence ; on the right is the Wistar Institute of Anatomy, 
that fine institution — unparalleled, I believe, in this coun- 
try — devoted solely to original research, whence will is- 
sue, in coming years, solutions of Nature's mysteries of 
inestimable benefit to mankind ; and on the left the 
homelike residence devoted to the accommodation of the 
young women attending the professional schools ; beyond 
is the Hygienic Laboratory, where microbes and bacilli 
are challenged and made to stand and deliver, and where 
we learn that the true Battle of Life is fought in our 
veins and arteries ; and still further on is the Laboratory 
of Chemistry, that fascinating science, the sum of whose 
formulas must have been in the Creative Mind when the 
morning stars sang together and Eternity became Time. 
In addition we see a Dining Hall, and the Athletic 
Grounds, whereon, to make the balance true between all 
departments, the worship of brain is counterpoised by 
the worship of brawn. 

Thus much for the mere buildings, which now number 
twenty in all, five times as many as we saw in 1881, while 
the College grounds have expanded to fifty-two acres, as 
against the former fifteen and a half. 

If we turn to the list of professors and instructors, 
we find that there are six times as many now as there 
were thirteen years ago. Our last catalogue shows that 
they now number two hundred and sixty-eight and the 
number of students has more than doubled. There are 
now two thousand one hundred and eighty cormorants 
for knowledge who are eminently successful in keeping 
their professors from falling into mischief which Satan 
finds for idle hands to do. 

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ADDRESS BY If t^q compare the value of the property of all kinds 
held by the University in 1881 with what it now holds, we 
shall find the same noteworthy increase. In that year, in 
round numbers, it was sixteen hundred thousand dollars. 
It is estimated in this present year to be, also in round 
numbers, five millions of dollars. Assuredly a mighty 
sum, and assuredly a meager pittance ! At this hour 
the University is poor, wretchedly poor, and she would 
still be poverty-stricken, let us fervently hope, if she 
had fifty millions instead of five. When any institution, 
as has been said, needs no more money, its hour of 
usefulness has struck, its life has departed, and it had 
better close its gates. Every appeal for more money 
which the University makes is the birth-cry of a new 
department which will widen its resources, extend its 
educational power, and enable it to answer the needs 
of the day. Expansion means life, and life means growth, 
and growth means money. Spell " growth " as you 
please, according to the good old fashion, or according 
to the reformed spelling, "groth," but in our University 
parlance it must be always pronounced " money." Never, 
therefore, as you love the dear old University, think that 
its cries for help will ever, ever cease. In that hour 
when it says it has enough, then be sure to say, " The 
University is dead." 

In additional proof of the University's growth during 
the last decade, let me enumerate the departments which 
have been instituted, and not merely instituted but welded 
into one organic whole, in itself a noteworthy achieve- 
ment. The mere titles are sufficient. To give a full 
description of each one, describing its scope, its success, 
the exactness with which it fills an educational need, would 
outweary patience. 

I do not give them chronologically in the order of their 
establishment, but they are : — 

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The Wharton School of Finance and Economy, address by 

T-u D- 1 • 1 T^ ^ ^ Dr.FURNESS 

1 he Biological Department, 

The Department of Philosophy, 

The Department of Physical Education, 

The Veterinary Department, 

The Auxiliary Department in Medicine, 

The Training School for Nurses, 

The Post-Graduate Coursein Law, 

The University Library, 

The Graduate Department for Women, 

The Biddle Law Library, 

The Department of Archaeology and of Palaeontology, 

The Department of Hygiene, 

The Semitic Department and of Assyriology, 

The Department of American History, 

The Department of Architecture, and 

The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology. 

Auxiliary to these departments, and enlarging those 
already established, the courses in Mechanical Engineer- 
ing, in Civil Engineering, in Chemistry, in Architecture, 
and in the Wharton School have all been extended to 
four years. 

The Law Course and the Dental Course, from two 
years have been enlarged to three years, and the Medical 
to four years. 

Probably no statement can show more concisely or 
more strikingly the expansion of the University than the 
fact that in i88i there were one hundred and fifty-four 
courses of study open to the students, and that there 
are now, under the elective system, six hundred. 

Furthermore, in pursuance of a far-sighted policy, the 
Provost has gathered around the University certain groups 
of earnest men and women who, under the University's 
sanction and encouragement, carry on, with no tax on our 
overburdened finances, the University's work, be it in 

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ADDRESS BY accumulating' museums, or m providmg' lectures, super- 
Dr. FURNESS . • t. • 1 r ;=. r 

vismg hospitals, etc. 

Nor should those fine publications be forgotten which 
our professors from time to time send forth under the 
University's Imprimatur, carrying to the wide world of 
letters at home and abroad the proofs of exact and refined 
scholarship and research. 

Nay, in answer to our knockings the centuries buried 
beneath the sandy plains of Nippur have awakened to tell 
across the ages the old, old story of human life. 

Here, at last (not by co-education, though, heaven save 
the mark!), women have the chance to prove what we 
have all along known in our secret, envious hearts to be 
the truth : their intellectual superiority to men, and that 
Nature's law is that finer, fairer clay clothes finer minds. 

Moreover, as the whole country cannot come to the 
University, our Provost has been foremost in extending 
the resources of the whole University to the country. 

Indeed, we have not rested in letting scholarship alone 
extend our fame ; have we not enlisted the animal king- 
dom? Birds, beasts, and reptiles have flown, hopped, 
skipped, and jumped in every phase of animal locomo- 
tion through the capitals of Europe and the palaces of 
kings, and every one of them labeled, "University of 
Pennsylvania." 

And that we might not hide our light under a bushel, 
displays and specimens of our work have been sent to the 
International Exhibitions in New Orleans, in Madrid, and 
in Chicago. 

As an outgrowth of the present time, the prophetic 
eye sees, added to the Hospital, another wing, devoted to 
children and to surgery, and dedicated to the memory of 
our idolized Agnew. 

Furthermore, in that same prophetic vision, there rises, 
as an extension of the Hospital, a Pathological Laboratory 

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built by Provost Pepper as a filial and enduring memorial ADDRESS by 
of his father, who was once the honored incumbent of the 
chair of the Theory and Practice of Medicine now held by 
his son. 

These are some of the outward and visible expressions 
of the University of Pennsylvania as it stands to-day. 
But are they the University ? " Stone walls do not a 
prison make," nor do they make a university. We may 
cover acres with buildings filled with every appliance for 
tuition, and yet they may all be as dead and as unproduc- 
tive of any good to the world, as unresponsive to any intel- 
lectual need of the life that now is, as are the monastic 
cells in the desert of the Thebaid. A university, in this 
country, should be not only a place of instruction, or of 
original research, but it should be something more ; it 
should be a centre, whence, not merely by the annual 
graduating of classes, but through the active enthusiasm 
of its faculties, an intellectual life shall be diffused far 
and wide. And if, happily, the university be placed in 
a vast city, as here, its influence should be discernible 
throughout the whole educational system of that city. It 
should be the summit of a " starry-pointed pyramid," 
composed of the multitudinous schools of the Common- 
wealth. To attain this exalted position, in which every 
citizen should take a pride, the University must be brought 
into close relations to the Civic government, and in the 
City Councils and State Legislatures it should have duly 
elected Representatives. All this the prophetic eye sees 
steadily approaching. 

Within its own walls, however, its first endeavor is not 
to turn out deep thinkers or leaders in politics or in the 
arts, any more than it is the object of a cook to make fat 
men. Leadership will come in the fullness of time to 
those of its graduates who are leaders by the grace of 
God. And well might we demand of our professors of 

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oi millionaires. JNay, on the Johnsonian, burlesque prin- 
ciple that " who drives fat oxen should himself be fat," we 
might demand that these professors themselves should be 
the very wealthiest of men. (Indeed, I wish they were !) 
What a university can attempt, with any hope of success, 
is to make an already keen love of knowledge keener, and 
to teach the average young man how to assimilate books. 
It can teach how to study, how to think, and in the pro- 
fessional schools, how to mine knowledge — in short, how 
to begin life. To demand of it that it should make of 
young men leaders, or impart extraordinary proficiency 
in any direction, is to ask it to put old heads on young 
shoulders, an experiment destined to turn out as disas- 
trously as Bottom's experience in "A Midsummer Night's 
Dream." It should be a training school for every faculty 
with which Nature has endowed us. Every pathway should 
be made a thoroughfare to that intellectual, supernal plain 
where, as Milton says, "All is so smooth, so green, so full 
of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side." 
After the university's work is done and its students have 
been led forth (in its true derivative sense, educated) from 
the darkness, of ignorance, all future careers, whether as 
leaders or as followers or as mere nonentities, must be 
left to circumstances and to that formula on which every 
man's temperament is based. 

But in order to accomplish this work, in order to open 
these pathways, the university's resources must be as 
complete as possible, and supplemented by a close cor- 
respondence with the times. It must lie "all Danae to the 
stars," receptive of all good influences. And, thus recep- 
tive, thus responsive, thus obedient to its duty to students, 
there will thence ensue a beneficent power on the com- 
munity at large, and, while seeming to lead, it will in 
reality follow : — 

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"As unto the bow the cord is, ADDRESS BY 

So unto the man is woman : Dr. FURNESS 

Though she bends him, she obeys him ; 
Though she draws him, yet she follows." 

This should be the relationship of the university to 
the world around it. Though it leads the intellectual 
thought of the day, it really follows it ; though it seems 
to give the watchword, it gives in reality the reply. 

Has our University reached this standard, and not 
only does this tie bind it to the Commonwealth, but is 
there in all its fair buildings and in its thronged lecture 
rooms the quickening, informing life which yields vital- 
ity to every scion of learning budded on it? Have there 
from this casket of erudition shone forth the sparkling 
rays which attract to it the admiration and the pride of 
men far and wide ? Is it dear to every young soul as 
the spring where the consuming thirst for knowledge 
may be slaked? Do men and women of mature years 
look to it as to the focus, the hearthstone, of that fire 
which is to warm into activity all their intellectual life ? 

The presence here to-day of this assemblage of 
thousands gives the triumphant answer. 

To the hearts of thoughtful men and women in 
this City and in this State the career and fortunes of 
the University of Pennsylvania, come home this day 
with a personal force undreamed of in former years. 
Well has it been recently said by his Honor the Mayor, 
that "nothing so well attests the advance of Philadel- 
phia as the growth of the University." Brave words, 
wherein our University finds its grandeur and its power ! 

And all this is the work of the last decade under 
the guiding influence of one man. 

To this present position of the University (thus most 
briefly recalled) ; to the increase of buildings ; to the in- 
crease of professors, the increase of students, of depart- 
ments, of pecuniary resources ; to its higher influence, 

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ADDRESS BY Jts consolidated organization, and its keen intellectual ac- 
tivity — to all these the Trustees appeal this day as a justi- 
fication of the wisdom of their choice thirteen years ago. 

And to the Provost of their choice, in this closing hour 
of his official duties, the Trustees acknowledge their 
appreciation of his unparalleled services, and, remem- 
bering the self-distrust and pale misgivings with which 
he assumed his high office, they are happy in the con- 
summation which has made that office higher than their 
imaginations pictured when he ascended the chair. 

We, therefore, the Trustees, believing that, on an 
occasion like the present, the briefest words are the 
strongest, ask him here and now to accept this public 
expression of our official thanks. 

So far, the University as an institution. 

Let me now, as Anacreon says, change the chord, 
and, doffing the Trustee, turn to matters more per- 
sonal. 

It is not often in a man's life that he finds himself 
obliged, as I now find myself, to speak privately in 
public. But, on the subject to which we must now 
turn, I must speak to you very confidentially, as far as 
the Provost is concerned. If, after this warning, he 
chooses to listen — well, there is a proverb about "listen- 
ers " which he can lay to heart, and if he wince, he 
must not blame us. 

'Tis a thankless task to refer to the imperfections 
in human nature — it's the only nature we have, and we 
had better make the best of it — yet we cannot quite 
shut our eyes to the consciousness that there is in this 
nature of ours at least one uncomfortable trait — I had 
almost termed it a detestable trait — which is an aver- 
sion to praise any man and, above all, to rear any 
monument to him while he is living. We fill high the 
sparkling bowl to the memory, and we pile high with 

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wreaths the tombs, of men to whom, when living, we address by 
vouchsafe not much more than a superciHous nod. 
They may have craved a word of sympathy or of ad- 
miration, and we are marble mute ; but no sooner are 
are they where "Honor's voice" cannot "provoke the 
silent dust," nor ',' flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of 
Death," than we burst forth into applause of their 
deeds, rend the air with our paeans of lofty praise, and 
erect their statues. Herein the world has grown no bet- 
ter since the days of Homer: "Seven Grecian cities" — 
you all know the distich. 

But without stopping to analyze this feeling, let us, 
at least, here and now, reform the practice, and, remem- 
bering" who it is that has raised this dear University to 
her present eminence, and recalling who it is that 
has toiled night and day in her behalf, and made her 
influence felt throughout this City and throughout these 
Middle States, with never a thought of self, or of his own 
interest, or of his own ease, let us cast to the winds this 
petty, unworthy feeling, and say, outright to his face, 
how much we love and honor and admire our Provost. 

In the midst of our applause and admiration of our 
retiring Provost (it is the very first time, by the way, 
that, where the interests of the University were con- 
cerned, he has been retiring), let us not forget that, 
while exactly fulfilling these manifold and most onerous 
duties as the head of a large University, he was still in 
active practice as a far-famed physician : — 

" Who, doomed to go in company with Pain 
And Fear and Bloodshed, miserable train ! 
In face of these doth exercise a power 
Which is our human nature's highest dower." 

The large emoluments derived from this widely ex- 
tended practice he has bestowed with lavish hand on the 
University ; the stores of experience there gained he 

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bchool. 

But all this pertains somewhat to that official char- 
acter which he is so soon to put off. Our dismay herein 
would be profound did we not believe that under the 
wise rule of him whose modesty will permit us to call 
him only a half successor, the glowing and exuberant 
health of our fair and ever young mother would con- 
tinue. But shall we not, once more before we part, 
come even closer to our Provost, and say how he has 
personally endeared himself to us all? Shall we not 
recall that gentleness, that urbanity, that intense ear- 
nestness which lent mettle to every professor and ta 
every student within our gates, and that unflagging 
industry and Titanic power of work which have been 
the admiration of all — and the despair? Those who have 
been close beside him have known better, perhaps, than 
others at a distance, how single has been his eye in 
every question of the University's interests, and that it 
has been his self-effacement which, "Clock to itself, 
knew the true minute" when to act. 

No "Fair Mother" ever had a more devoted, self- 
forgetting son, and she cannot forget him. No peren- 
nial bronze is needed to secure his memory. When he 
has "joined the choir invisible" (Absit omen ! 

" Serus in coelum redeat, diuque 
Laetus intersit populo ! "), 

he will "live again: in minds made better" by his labors 
here. Each annual wave dismissed from this spot will, 
in ever widening circles, carry his influence long and 
far. But this assurance, firm though it be, is for us 
simple folk somewhat of the chameleon's dish, promise- 
crammed, and we have Hamlet's word that there is no 
strengthening power there. Wherefore, in this material- 
istic age, we, the sons of the University by birth and 

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by adoption, cannot be contented with anything less ADDRESS BY 
substantial than a visible, material sign of what must 
some day be an immaterial presence. As " the mean- 
est garment which has but clipped the form of those 
we love " is dear to us, so we crave, for our Provost, 
what is even better : his likeness in his habit as he 
lived, " wherein the sculptor had a strife with nature to 
out-do the life," to which we can point in future years 
and say, "Sic sedebat." Albeit we know that "that 
better Self shall live till time shall fold its eyelids," 
yet this statue, moulded by hands of highest skill, shall, 
when cast in enduring bronze, transmit to future ages 
the lineaments we all love so well. It is not unlikely 
that, at first, even this will disappoint you — the living 
face, with its color and softer outline, is too vividly 
present in your thoughts. But the time will come 
when generations now unborn will gaze with gratitude 
upon it, and then, when all discords are hushed and all 
the petty limitations of mortality are forgotten, and we 
are all gone "where are no storms, no noise, but 
silence and eternal sleep," then shall this image which 
I now unveil be held as the true effigy of one whose 
heart and soul and mind and strength were devoted, 
while Provost, to the University of Pennsylvania. 

' ' Who is the Happy Warrior ? Who is he 
That every man in arms should wish to be? 
Who, when mortal mists are gathering, draws 
His breath in (serene hope) of Heaven's applause ? 
This is the Happy Warrior! This is he 
That every man in arms should wish to be ! " 



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